Literary resources

A short list of organizations and events to get your write on

Started in 2011, this ambitious start-up now holds multiple Hear Here sessions each month, one for networking, with featured artists and informal slamming, the other to help build Hear Here's second poetry slam team, which in its inaugural year finished fifth nationally.

Poetry West, which bills itself as "the largest community of poets and writers in the Pikes Peak Region," hosts monthly workshops, critique sessions and every-now-and-again poetry readings. The nonprofit also produces a literary journal, The Eleventh Muse.

"Live personal storytelling" is the game here, making it less about writing, with monthly gatherings wherein locals — doctors, artists, actors, even Zorro impersonators — share their experiences, Moth-style. Sessions are recorded and can be heard on KRCC 91.5.

Now three years old, Word Wednesday runs from 8 to 11 p.m. weekly with both featured performers and time slots for spoken word artists and poets.

Play our Fall Arts Trivia game for all kinds of great prizes, including tickets to the The Nutcracker, courtesy of The Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the Fine Arts Center, Theatreworks, GOCA, COPPeR and other arts organizations!